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13. Syma torotoro ochracea H. & H. 



Si/mn lornloro ochracea Rothschild and Hartert, Xoi: Zool. I'JOl. p. 148 (Goodunough— type !— and 

 Fergusson Islands). 



S ; Goodenoiigli Islaud, 14. iv. 1913. (No. 5582, A. S. Meek ( Joll.) 



14. Halcyon sancta (Vig. & Horsf.). 



Huk-i/mi miHtiis Vigors and Hoisfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London XV. p. 206 (1826 — Australia). 



2 ? ; Goodeiiough Islaud, 19, 20. v. 1913. (Nos. 5692, 5695, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



15. Cacomantis assimilis fortior snbsp. nov. 



[C'nriiliis (issimilis Gray, Pro,;. Zoul. Soc. London 18a8. pp. 184, 195, Aru Islands.] 

 Cacomantis assimilis (?) Nov. Zool. 1907. p. 435. 



Similar to C. assimilis assimilis, but larger, with larger aud longer bills, and 

 generally longer wings. Bill as a rule about 2 mm. longer, wings 122-137, against 

 110-122, exceptionally 125 and even 128 mm. Type of C. a. fortis: S ad., Mts. 

 of Goodenough Island', 17. iv. 1913. (No. 5584, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



We have the following specimens of tliis race : 



3 S ad., 1 ? jnv. ; Mts. of Goodenough Islaud, April and May 1913. (Nos. 5584, 

 5643, 56T1, 5687, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



? ad.; Goodenough Island, 21. .xii. 1896, A. S. Meek Coll. 



1 i ad., 2 ? jun. ; Fergusson Island, September 1894, June 1897, A. S. Meek 

 Col). 



We have compared these with forty skins from various localities of what we 

 consider to be C. assimilis assimilis. A careful study of a good series from various 

 parts of New Guinea and the Papuan Islands might possibly reveal the existence of 

 still more races. See remarks S'ov. Zool. 1907, p. 435. 



10. Aeg'otlieles plumifera Kams. 



.UrjotheUs plumifera Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales viii. p. 21 (1883— "S.E. New Guinea" ; 

 locality probably incorrect : terra typica Fergusson or Goodenough Island !) ; cf. Nov. Zool. 

 1903. p. 201. 



? ad.; Mts. of Goodenough Island, 29. iv. 1913. (No. 5638, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 Wiug 127 mm. The differences from the very much larger Ae. bennetti have 

 been stated by ns in 1903. The present form differs from Ae. salmdorii in its 

 unspotted upper wing-coverts and somewhat different face-markings. 



17. Pitta mackloti finschii Rams. 



Pitta finschii Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sue. N. S. Wales ix. p. 8G4 (1884— " Astrolabe Range"; 

 evidently an error, especially as green-backed examples are supposed to have come from the 

 same place ! Doubtless the terra typica was one of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, i.e. Fergusson 

 or Goodenough Island). 



? ad., ¥ juv.; Mts. of Goodenough Island, 3n. iii., 11. iv. 1913. (Nos. 5519, 

 5574, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The young bird has the crown aud nape dark chocolate, with iudistinct rusty 

 brown tips to the feathers, instead of dark chestnut, as in the adult birds ; the 

 underside of the young bird is of course spotted, as in all the other red Pittas. 



